AW: [sw-l] ISWA 2008 Final & the PersonalPuddle

Wed Oct 22 12:52:02 UTC 2008

How beautifully said, also on the previous messages. I do not have  
the vocabulary  to express my admiration for Valerie, Steve and  
others, as Mohammed, Adam and Stefan have but please imagine a big  
huggggg of gratitude.
For  Stanley the stick figure in dance and the Sign writing.

Tini.

On 22-Oct-08, at 3:58 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Hello Valerie, Steve, sw-list members
>
> I read this message several times. Wow - what an accomplishment.
>
> It is difficult for me to express my feelings of respect, gratitude  
> and
> pride. You change the world. You offer brilliant tools to bridge  
> the worlds
> of the hearing and Deaf. You offer new options to study and to  
> compare all
> SL of the world. I understand that providing a tool that allows  
> writing down
> SL for every day use as well as for detailed scientific studies  
> will support
> all of us who believe in bilingual education. I am using your  
> invention with
> various software - Programs almost for 10 years now.
>
> Reading your message I remembered your letter to the list back in  
> 1997. (see
> attached message) Isn't it amazing that it took only almost 10  
> years to make
> these dreams and visions come true?
>
> There have been so many inspiring people participated in the long  
> run. From
> my point of view it is your way to accept anybody coming to the SW- 
> community
> just as he/she is. You invite us to share our ideas, questions,  
> doubts and
> you never looked down on anybody if the same question has been  
> asked again
> and again.
>
> Thinking about this I ask myself how many professional and personal  
> skills
> are needed to get such an idea from the ground. Still today there are
> probably more then 20 (smile) SL- linguists who do not understand  
> what a
> major change has happened. I am convinced that further scientific
> investigations will proof that your contribution became a landmark  
> in the
> history of modern SL research that your invention will be known as the
> Copernican Revolution in this field.
>
>
> Keep up your brilliant work. Keep up your generosity and friendship  
> to share
> with us, what you have developed. All I can say is thank you for  
> everything
> you donate to us.
>
> Most of us are not able to understand anything that is behind this
> complicated programming. So thanks to Richard Gleaves and Steve  
> Slevinski
> and other brilliant software experts we are able to share, to  
> write, to
> preserve what is to be expressed in SL directly in SignWriting.
>
> Hopefully in ten years from now I should be able to write all this  
> in ASL --
> smile.
>
> And Steve I would like to include you: “Let's all congratulate  
> Valerie and
> Steve on their amazing work.  This is a historic day and I'm glad I  
> was a
> contemporary witness.
>
> Have a wonderful day and take care - we need you!
> All good wishes -
> Stefan ;-)
>
>
>
>
>> From the Desk of
> Valerie Sutton
> November 21, 1997
>
> Hello Ronice!
>
> Thanks for the excellent comment above :-)
>
> In the future we hope to add a "SignWriting Chat Room" to our  
> SignWriting
> Web Site. Hopefully the Chat Room will be available in 1998, as  
> soon as we
> complete the new version of the SignWriter Computer Program,  
> version 5.0.
> There is no question that it will happen in time, I am just not  
> sure exactly
> when.
>
> At present, this is how I envision the Chat Room working...
>
> Participants will first need to download the new SignWriter  
> Shareware so
> that SignWriting can be typed on their computers. Then, on our  
> SignWriting
> Web Site, they would go to the SignWriting Forum, and enter "the  
> Chat Room".
>
> But .....this Chat Room will be very different than other chat  
> rooms. Try to
> imagine typing to each other in the visual nature of signed  
> languages -
> truly "thinking in a signed language" as facial expressions,  
> handshapes, and
> movement symbols are typed down the screen in vertical columns.  
> Participants
> will be able to share signs from different countries. The software  
> will be
> flexible. Conversations can switch back and forth between signed  
> and spoken
> languages, alternating between three typing modes: signs,  
> fingerspelling and
> the Roman alphabet.
>
> Perhaps we should have separate chat rooms for the different signed
> languages? For example, we could have an ASL Chat Room, and a DSL  
> Chat Room
> and a BSL Chat Room etc - and people could switch languages and enter
> another Chat Room when they wish. What do you think?
>
> All of this is in the design stage, so if you have good ideas  
> please tell
> me!!
>
> All good wishes -
>
> Valerie
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: sw-l-bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
> [mailto:sw-l-bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] Im Auftrag von  
> Valerie Sutton
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2008 18:13
> An: SignWriting List
> Betreff: Re: [sw-l] ISWA 2008 Final & the PersonalPuddle
>
> SignWriting List
> October 21, 2008
>
> Hello SignWriting List!
>
> And thank you Steve, for your message below. Thank you for the kind
> words. And thank you for collaborating with me, to make this historic
> moment possible.
>
> There are two big announcements today.
>
> FIRST...The International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA 2008) is  
> official!
>
> The ISWA became the official symbolset for SignWriting around the
> world, yesterday, October 20, 2008!
>
> The ISWA is now installed in all SignPuddle software products. I will
> be reviewing all the SignPuddle products here on the SignWriting List
> over the next few days...
>
> The free online version of SignPuddle is used daily by hundreds of
> sign language users.
>
> When you use SignPuddle Online, you are using the ISWA 2008 symbols:
>
> SignPuddle Online
> http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle
>
> Most of you may not realize that you are using the ISWA, but you are.
> Whenever you use SignPuddle Online, it is there for you, in SignMaker
> and SignText.
>
> The ISWA is the culmination of my 35 years developing SignWriting. As
> you know, the first SignWriting document ever written was in 1974 at
> the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. SignWriting became my life's
> work from that moment on, and will be for the rest of my life.
>
> Without all of the wonderful SignWriting users around the world, of
> course SignWriting could not be what it is today....so THANK YOU to
> all of you, for your feedback and your use of the writing
> system...Your input has made the ISWA 2008 possible too.
>
> I hope my gift of the ISWA to the world will be useful for generations
> to come...
>
> I will announce the second announcement next message...it is new
> software for your desktop, called the PersonalPuddle.
>
> Thank you once again, Steve, for your remarkable software that made
> the ISWA 2008 official!
>
> Val ;-)
>
> Valerie Sutton
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
> ---------------
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2008, at 8:33 AM, Steve Slevinski wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> The review period for the ISWA 2008 ended successfully yesterday.
>> Valerie will be announcing that the ISWA is final, as in finally
>> done and finished.  There has been a lot of work on this latest
>> symbol set.  I'm proud of the work that we've done together.
>>
>> This could be the final symbol set for SignWriting.  If not forever,
>> then at least the next few years.  With the new character encoding
>> model, this may be the symbol set that will be used with Unicode,
>> but that's a different story.
>>
>> SignPuddle Online already uses the ISWA 2008.  Just last week I
>> finished a new desktop version of the PocketPuddle called the
>> PersonalPuddle for Windows and Mac.  The installation has been
>> greatly simplified: just unzip and start the application.  It works
>> the same as SignPuddle Online, except it doesn't require an Internet
>> connection.  With the new SignPuddle export function, it is possible
>> to get a local copy of any of the online puddles to use offline at
>> any time.
>>
>> The PersonalPuddle is available for $100, the same price as the
>> PocketPuddle.  Except for the rest of this month, the price has been
>> cut in half to $50 to celebrate the release of the ISWA 2008 Final.
>>
>> For the PocketPuddle users, they will be offered the PersonalPuddle
>> at not cost.  They can contact me directly if they would like help
>> converting their existing IMWA data over to the ISWA.
>>
>> I am finishing the IMWA Conversion document and code.  It will be
>> ready in the next couple of days.
>>
>> Let's all congratulate Valerie on her amazing work.  This is a
>> historic day and I'm glad I was a part.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Steve
>
>
>
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